Silver Lake (ebook)

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It was on a fully dark February night when I went to the Communists Daughter to meet a friend who never showed that my life in movies began.So begins the third installment in a series of standalone novels about the life and travels of Aubrey McKee. Set in Toronto and Silver Lake, a creative neighbourhood in Los Angeles, the novel chronicles with infectious lan Aubreys journey from broken-hearted derelict to B-movie production assistant, comedy writer, and science-ction screenwriter, all the way up to feature lm director. Along the way, he encounters long-ago childhood friends, manic producers, NHL players turned talk show hosts, Victorias Secret models, impulsive movie stars . . . and his own rising destiny.Praise forSilver LakeAlex PugsleysSilver Lakeis sharp and hilarious and illuminates a world of vivid characters all too familiar to me.Mark McKinney,The Kids in the HallandSuperstorePraise for theAubrey McKeeSeriesAubrey, captivated as much by his lovers eccentricities as he is by her striking beauty, strives with equal energy to penetrate the mystery of a life thats been damaged by her abuse. But even as Aubrey believes hes come to terms with the emotional schizophrenia of our relations, when Gudruns career takes a turn that propels her in an exciting creative direction, he finds himself ill-prepared to cope . . . A realistic portrait of a complex romance between two mismatched but sympathetic characters.Kirkus ReviewsA fun and fascinating read from start to finish,The Education of Aubrey McKeecontinues to showcase author Alex Pugsleys genuine flair for original, distinctive, and narrative driven storytelling style.Midwest Book ReviewAlex PugsleysThe Education of Aubrey McKeeis alive with raucous humour, drunken abandon, soul searching and soul-crushing crushes. Full to the gills with art making and poetry and TV scripts written on spec, posturing and the true thing. Every page is feverish and suave. Pugsley is the love child of Jack Kerouac and Greta Gerwig, or D.H. Lawrence and Wes Andersonticklingly funny and dead serious at the same time.Lisa Moore, author ofThis Is How We LoveThis amazing book is nothing in turnsinstead it is everywhere continuously lyric, hilarious, and heartbreaking. The promise of Alex Pugsleys nonchalant epic, as of this second entry, is worthy of crazy comparisonsBalzac, Jonathan Coe, etc . . . Pugsleys project operates on a similar double-scale, always wittily precise, even sometimes zany in the particulars, yet with the sense that a picture of time itself has been captured, through windows in front of which his portrait-subjects merely happen to be seated.Jonathan Lethem, author ofBrooklyn Crime NovelThe novel has an inventive structure, beginning with a short story set sometime in the future about Aubrey working as a writer on a sketch-comedy show and ending with a play by Aubrey.Publishers WeeklyEvoking comparisons in both style and substance to the work of John Irving and Robertson Davies in its assemblage of perceptive, richly detailed character studies . . . The life of a Canadian city is revealed with verve and insight.Kirkus Reviews